Preface; Introduction; 1. The 'comforts' of praise and blame; 2. 'Injuries' and 'remedies': the first two acts; 3. 'Pluming up the will': Iago's place in the play; 4. Personal and professional identity: Othello in the first two acts; 5. 'Alacrity in hardness': Othello's crisis in Acts III and IV; 6. The 'hollow hell' of vengeance: Othello's attempted remedies; 7. Self-charity and self-abnegation: the play's women in love; 8. The 'power to hurt' and 'be hurt', 'past all surgery': the final scene.
Jane Adamson analyses Othello and assesses the title character's complex tragedy.
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